THE OPPORTUNIST
With Paul McGann
THE OPPORTUNIST
With Paul McGann
Friday 14 Feb 2025
Watershed
13:30
12A
Dir Mykola Shpykovskyi, 1929, Soviet Ukraine, 77 mins
5.00 -
11.00
BSL interpreted event
A rare find, only recently rediscovered and restored, and from a co-director of CHESS FEVER, this is a satire about a small-time racketeer trying to turn Bolshevism to his advantage.
The fact he ends up with the Red Army in charge of a camel is just one of the absurd digs at political correctness which got this film banned by Soviet apparatchiks. Introduced by actor Paul McGann, with live piano accompaniment by John Sweeney.
All profits from this event will be donated to a Ukrainian Charity ‘From Bristol With Love‘
90 mins